RIAA's New Greed
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Just found out on top of suing individuals... the RIAA is now going to try and start getting royalties from people selling used cds.
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................................ greed will end them
- ********0
no it won't. they have all the money in the world to change the laws gradually over time to suit their needs.
- welded0
I haven't heard that bit about going after used CD vendor, but if it's true then that's complete bullshit. That's basically just a disgusting double-dip.
What next? Make speakers illegal because more than one person might listen at a time?
- unfittoprint0
forbid whistle.
- unknown0
RIAA is just a laugh
- exador0
personally, i think it's all over for them....
Its like witnessing the last dying convulsions of a wounded beast.sure they have all the money.
sure they can have laws changed due to well healed lobbyists..doesnt change the simple fact that the cat is now out of the bag, and will never go back in.
people like to listen to music.
and people like to play music for an audience, and make a living at it.somehow, this beast RIAA set themselves up as a fatcat middleman between artist and audience.
overcharging for everything, and giving both sides little in return.their cries of foul play, and unfair are falling on my deaf ears.
mosts artists will tell you that the majority of their money is gained through live performances, and royalties..
the actual mula from record sales they receive is pretty paltry.so.
like ive said before,
consider this like pull radio.
if i want to hear a song, like...say..
'shes an easy lover' by phil collins from back in the day, i can just download it, and hear it in about a minute.however, if an artist i truly dig comes out with a new CD, like SAYBIA (just got it today)
i'll go to the store and buy it..support the artists you dig...
see them play live if you can...but screw the RIAA..
- CyBrainX0
I always say. They are the enemy to be opposed as strongly and in as many ways as you can think. They have no ethical concerns whatsoever. Fight them in anyway. Hack, steal, copy, distribute and burn them. They deserve no less.
- BonSeff0
or just buy strait from the label. eliminate the middleman and the markup.
but im only talking about new shit im interested. all my cassetts that melted on the dashboard are in the process of being replaced by jacked mp3's posted by fools that bought the cd. an effort i dont care to replicate,
and exadors post almost made me stand up and clap. well done
can i get an amen!
- unknown0
Let's not forget that a lot of artists support the RIAA that's why they are still around.
- BonSeff0
what artists? seriously
those with contracts with emi and the like?
- ********0
scr*w RIAA
- ********0
exactly EMI is right
- 187LockDown0
Im glad, you have to think about the artists who make the music, downloading their music is bad Mkay and will not be tolerated M kay. Respect the music Mkay. Don't be bad. K
- unfittoprint0
When the lawsuits begin, RIAA will be seen as the Senator McCarthy of the music business.
The difference is that they already lost.
- jevad0
destroy the RIAA
- unknown0
Madonna, Metallica, Sheryl Crow are the ones that I can think of right now bitchin about mp3's
but
50 cent is aight with it.
He said it's a great way to promote one's album with no effort and if it's really good people gonna buy it no matter if they downloaded it or not.
Bootlegers helped him to create a hype around him.There are people sellin' records and a fuckin' lot because there shit is actually worth $16
RIAA are dumbfucks anyway, they're diggin' their own graves
- Dolan0
They'll win in the end. CDs will go away, MP3s will be a thing of the past, as old and gone as 8-tracks. We'll all look back and laugh at the era of file-trading and how the net got out of control before the money-men and the software monopoly got it together. In 50 years the labels will still own the Beatles catalog, the Stones, Sinatra, Eminem, Radiohead, and everyone you've basically ever heard of --- and they'll still be raking in the cashish. Enjoy the fruits of their stupidity and short-sightedness now, cause it'll be over in a few years.
- Dolan0
Note: Just for devil's advocacy, read vena's 'instant hate' thread. Word.
- 187LockDown0
No artist is alright with it. DUmbass it is against the fucking law. Don't fucking file share you cheap bastards. I support commerce not fucking morons who donload their favorite artists music behind their backs. One again NO FCUKING ARTISTS ARE DOWN WITH IT. NOT EVEN 50 CENT.
YOu think they don't want to get paid. Did I mention it's against the law?
- kpl0
I'm not convinced it's wrong to share music files. Fuck doing what you're told, fuck the law. Until someone shows me proof that file sharing is causing record prices to drop and not the sour economy, then i'm don't believe it's wrong. Yet when Napster was all the rage and the economy wasn't half as bad (see 2001) record sales didn't slip.
And there is plenty of anecdotal evidence that show illegal distributed mp3's helped album sales, not hurt. see Radiohead Kid A, 50 Cent, etc.
artists are living in poverty not because of filesharing but because of industry practice. and that no one can deny.
Plus music is not fonts. The audience for music is much wider and the economies are different. That's a lazy and easily debunkable argument.
- kpl0
ahem, cough cough, cd sales actually rose slightly during Napster's height.